Macri yesterday at La Feliz for the presentation of his book, for now / PRO press
“We are open to a competition to see who leads” Together for Change, Mauricio Macri acknowledged yesterday in his public reappearance at an event in Mar del Plata where, in addition to leaving messages within the opposition coalition, he once again played ambiguity about a possible presidential candidacy next August.
Accompanied by his cousin Jorge and the deputies Diego Santilli and Christian Ritondo, among other PRO leaders, the former president led a meeting in a Playa Grande confectionery with the excuse of presenting his book “For what.”
After his stay in Qatar where he witnessed the World Cup and his rest in Villa La Angostura, where he met with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta to talk about “electoral issues”, Macri raised his profile again, arousing all kinds of suspicions in the armed opposition about what role it will play in the upcoming election year. “I will be where they need me because together it is better,” he said to the exclamation of dozens of militants who crowded into the establishment and chanted: “It feels, it feels, Mauricio President.”
In truth, the ex-president continues with the same strategy that he has been adopting for months: on the one hand, he does not get off the attempt to compete for a new season at the Casa Rosada, but he also says that he could continue as a “computer” for the PRO and as a promoter. of the slogans that JxC should offer to society in the next elections. “Either we are the change or we are nothing,” he insisted on his leitmotif of the Cambiemos stage and that he asked to delve into his new book where, among other measures, he proposes to privatize Aerolíneas Argentinas.
In the midst of the revival of the internal tugs of the armed opposition, Macri tried to minimize the conflicts by assuring that they are facing “an important competition and it is good that it be so” because he considered that the country needs “the best level of politicians so that the young people do not continue to go abroad.
The truth is that they continue to make internal differences visible according to the need of the leaders to position themselves towards the next elections. Senator Alfredo Cornejo, who does not rule out competing again for the Mendoza governorship, in a shot for elevation to Larreta and Gerardo Morales, maintained that “it is difficult for me to see those friendships between Juntos leaders with (Sergio) Massa” since he considers that the opposition It should be firm “in the narrative and in the facts” in the face of the onslaught of the Frente de Todos against the “institutions”.
Meanwhile, in the Civic Coalition they came out to denounce an alleged ruse by the Neuquén PRO authorities that would weaken the candidate for governor blessed by the representation of JxC in that province. This time it was not Elisa Carrió who stirred up the waters but the deputy Maxi Ferraro, head of the party, who called on his members of the opposition alliance to “take the appropriate precautions” to prevent Rolando Figueroa, a former leader of the pro-government Popular Movement A Neuquino who knew how to “vote in Congress with Kirchnerism”, go as a candidate under the umbrella of the “yellow party” weakening the candidacy of deputy Pablo Cervi, supported by the CC and radicalism. There is still no agreement in the Patagonian district and the coalition could be divided in the elections on April 16.
The truth is that Macri’s statements come at a time when Larreta intensified his campaign tours of the Atlantic Coast with which he aspires to establish himself definitively as one of the space presidential candidates. But the mayor of Buenos Aires will probably wait for the definition of the ex-president to launch himself officially: nothing would be the same in the PRO if Macri finally decided to run. Patricia Bullrich, meanwhile, is on vacation but next week she would resume her tours, this time, through popular festivals in the interior.
Dozens of militants sang: “It feels, it feels, Mauricio President”
